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1. FAITH, HOPE, LOVE 

2. LOVE, FRIENDSHIP, GOOD CHEER 

3. COURAGE, AMBITION, RESOLUTION 

4. CONDUCT, HEALTH, GOOD FORTUNE 

5. PATIENCE, PERSEVERANCE, ENDURANCE 

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Our best thoughts come from others 

Emerson 



of a human being? 

Emerson 



The mind profits by the wreck of every 
passion, and we may measure our road to 
wisdom by the sorrows we have under- 
gone. Bulwer-Lytton 



A word or a nod from the good has more 
weight than the eloquent speeches of others. 

Plutarch 



I would that we might understand our- 
selves, see what we might be, our possi- 
bilities. Phillips Brooks 

[7] 



POSSIBILITY- PURPOSE-ENDEAVOR 

Our deeds determine us as much 
as we determine our deeds. George Eliot 

<§> 

He who lives in his thoughts, and the emo- 
tions which they awaken, needs little else 
for his entertainment; and as he needs little 
for himself he is the more able to be of help 
to others. Bishop Spalding 



If a man expects and believes great things 
of himself, it makes no odds where you put 
him. Thoreau 



For some there be, whose feet must fare, 
By common ways, who may not hear 

Or, hearing, may not understand 
The linnet's song, so high and clear. 

And I, who cannot tune my throat 
To pipe the linnet's golden lay, 

May still, beside the common path, 
Sing mine own song in mine own way. 

Florence Jones 

[8] 



We mount to heaven mostly on, 
the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding 
our failures were successes. 

A. Bronson Alcott 



We are haunted by an ideal life, and it 
is because we have within us the beginning 
and the possibility of it. 

Phillips Brooks 



Every heart that has beat strong and 
cheerful has left a hopeful impulse behind 
it in the world, and bettered the tradition of 
mankind. Stevenson 

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Any Christian spirit working kindly in 
its little sphere, whatever it may be, will 
find its mortal life too short for its vast means 
of usefulness. Charles Dickens 



All things are possible to him that be- 
Iieveth. St. Mark 9 : 23 

[9] 



POSSIBILITY- PURPOSE ENDEAVOR 

There's a divinity that shapes 

our ends, 
Rough-hew them how we will. 

Shakespeare 

<§> 

If we but will and work, opportunities are 
offered us to become and to perform what- 
ever may crown and glorify a human soul. 

Bishop Spalding 

<§> 

The least moment is of importance to 
all nature. The entire ocean is affected 
by a pebble. Pascal 

If anything is possible for man and con- 
formable to his nature, think that this can 
be attained by thyself too. 

Marcus Aurelius 

<§> 

Let a man but have an aim, a purpose, 
and opportunities to attain his end shall 
start forth like buds at the kiss of spring. 

Bishop Spalding 

[10] 




Anon. 



A consideration of petty circumstances 
is the tomb of great things. Voltaire 



Nothing is useless to the man of sense; 
he turns everything to account. 

La Fontaine 

'Tis in thy power to think as thou wilt. 

Walter Pater 

Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is 
in his own hands. Bacon 

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Do not think that what is hard for thee 
to master is impossible for man; but if a 
thing is possible and proper to man, deem 
it attainable by thee. 

Marcus Aurelius 

In] 



Every day is a fresh beginning, 

Every morn is the world made new. 

You who are weary of sorrow and sinning, 
Here is a beautiful hope for you; 

A hope for me and a hope for you. 

Susan Coolidge 

Whether any particular day shall bring 
you more of happiness or of suffering is largely 
beyond your power to determine. Whether 
each day of your life shall give happiness or 
suffering rests with yourself. 

George S. Merriam 



It is the secret sympathy, 

The silver link, the silken tie, 

Which heart to heart, and mind to mind 

In body and in soul can bind. 

Sir Walter Scott > 

[12] 



Look well into thyself; there is a source 
of strength which will always spring up if 
thou wilt always look there. 

Marcus Aurelius 

# 

Great things thro' greatest hazards are 

achiev'd, 
And then they shine. 

Beaumont and Fletcher 

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Who goeth in the way that Christ has gone, 
Is much more sure to meet with Him, than 
one 

That traveleth by-ways. 
Perhaps my God, though He be far before, 
May turn and take me by the hand, and 
more, 

May strengthen my decays. 

George Herbert 

[13] 



POSSIBILITY- PURPOSE-ENDEAVOR 

Man is not the creature of cir- ^ 
cumstances. Circumstances are the_creatures 
of man. 



Disraeli 



With God all things are possible. 

Matthew 19: 26 



He who follows reason in all things is both 
tranquil and active at the same time, and 
also cheerful and collected. Anon. 



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Human happiness, therefore, can only be 
complete as all the powers have their full 
and legitimate play. Thomas 

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There is no field so small, no cranny so 
contracted, but that a great spirit can house 
and manifest itself therein. The thunder 
that smites the Alps into dust, can gather 
itself into the width of a golden wire. 

Ruskin 

[14] 



Since it is possible that thou ^ 
mayst depart from life this very moment, 
regulate every act and thought accordingly. 

Marcus Aurelius 



Nothing is impossible. There are ways 
which lead to everything. 

La Rochefoucauld 



The wind that blows can never kill 

The tree God plants; 
It bio wet h east; it bio wet h west; 
The tender leaves have little rest, 
But any wind that blows is best. 

The tree God plants 
Strikes deeper root, grows higher still, 
Spreads wider boughs, for God's good-will 

Meets all its wants. 

Lillie E. Barr 

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Do the truth ye know, and you shall 
learn the truth you need to know. 

George Macdonald 

[15] 




The more you practice what you % 
know, the more shall you know what to prac- 
tice. W. Jenkins 



Men are often capable of greater things 
than they perform. Walpole 



Seven hundred pounds and possibilities 
is good gifts. Shakespeare 



I have ever held it a maxim, never to do 
through another what it were possible for 
me to do myself. Montesquieu 



And what's impossible can't be, 
And never never comes to pass. 

Colman 



Growth is the inevitable result of work 
done in the right direction. 

Waldo Pondray Warren 
[16] 



Tryon Edwards 

<§> 

There is no impossibility to him who 
stands prepared to conquer every hazard. 

Sarah J. Hale 

Let us start up and live: here come mo- 
ments that cannot be had again; some few 
may yet be filled with imperishable good. 

J. Martineau 

# 

To maintain oneself on this earth is not 
a hardship but a pastime, if only one will 
live simply and wisely. Thoreau 

Practice what you know, and it will 
help to make clear what now you do not 
know. Rembrandt 

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Every duty which we omit obscures some 
truth which we should have known. 

Ruskin 

[17] 



PURPOSE 





Disraeli 



It is well to have visions of a better life 
than that of every day, but it is the life of 
every day from which elements of a better 
life must come. Maurice Maeterlinck 



In doing is this knowledge won, 
To see what yet remains undone. 
With this our pride repress, 
And give us grace, a growing store, 
That day by day we may do more 
And may esteem it less. 

Bishop Trench 

[21] 



We are all of us made more grace- 
ful by the inward presence of what we believe 
to be a generous purpose. George Eliot 



He that resolves upon any great and good 
end has, by that very resolution, scaled the 
chief barrier to it. Tryon Edwards 



We are responsible, each in his own little 
way, for trying to leave this sad world hap- 
pier. Anon. 



They who are most weary of life, and yet 
are most unwilling to die, are such who have 
lived to no purpose, who have rather breathed 
than lived. Lord Clarendon 



If any man has any serious purpose in 
life, that which runs counter to it, or is for- 
eign to it, will be looked at frowningly or 
carelessly by him. Ruskin 

[22] 



Life is too short to waste 
In critic peep or cynic bark, 
Quarrel or reprimand: 
'Twill soon be dark; 
Up! mind thy own aim, and 
God speed the mark. 

Emerson 



High aims and lofty purposes are the wings 
of the soul aiding it to mount to heaven. 

5. Spring 

I would be true, for there are those who 
trust me; 

I would be pure, for there are those who care; 

I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; 

I would be brave, for there is much to dare; 

I would be friend of all — the foe — the 
friendless ; 

I would be giving, and forget the gift; 

I would be humble, for I know my weak- 
ness; 

I would look up — and laugh — and love — 
and lift. 

Howard Arnold Walter 
[23] 




The purpose of a journey is not 
only to arrive at the goal, but to find enjoy- 
ment on the way. Henry Van Dyke 



This world belongs to the energetic. 

Emerson 

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All life is a school, a preparation, a pur- 
pose. Anon. 

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Life, in all ranks and situations, is an 
outward occupation, an actual and active 
work. W. von Humboldt 



God overrules all mutinous accidents, 
brings them under his laws of fate, and 
makes them all serviceable to his purpose. 

Marcus Aurelius 



Always hold fast to your purpose, and 
you will win success. Ruskin 

[24] 



f we have need ol a strong 
in order to do good, it is more necessary for 
us in order not to do evil. Mole 



I ask you while hope is still fresh and 
enthusiasm unchilled to gain some concep- 
tion of the solemnity, the vastness, the unity, 
the purpose of life. Bishop Westcott 



Defer not till to-morrow to be wise; 
To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise. 

Congreve 

♦ 

A purpose is the eternal condition of 
success. T. T. Munger 

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All common things, each day's events, 
That with the hour begin and end, 
Our pleasures and our discontents, 
Are rounds by which we may ascend. 

Longfellow 

[25] 



Resolve to perform what you 
ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 

Benjamin Franklin 



He who soweth bountifully shall reap also 
bountifully. God Ioveth a cheerful giver. 

2 Cor. 9: 6, 7 



One good action, one temptation resisted 
and overcome, will prove a cordial for weak 
and low spirits far beyond that which either 
indulgence, or diversion, or company can 
do for them. Anon. 

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Do nothing inconsiderately nor without 
a purpose. Anon. 

# 

Comfort me not ! — for if ought be worse 
than failure from over-stress 

Of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down con- 
tent with a little success. 

Bulwer-Lytton 

[26] 



What men want is not talent; it is pur- 
pose. Bulwer-Lytton 



I profess not talking: only this, let each 
man do his best. Shakespeare 

<§> 

Every branch of knowledge which a good 
man possesses, he may apply to some good 
purpose. C. Buchanan 



Nothing is denied to well directed labor; 
nothing is ever to be attained without it. 

Sir Joshua Reynolds 



Do not despise your situation; in it you 
must act, suffer, and conquer. 

Anon. 



Anon. 
[27] 



man witn a nan -volition go< 
backwards and forwards, and makes no way 
on the smoothest road. Anon. 



Work to satisfy thine own nature, thine 
innermost craving for truth, beauty, and 
love, not to please another. 

Bishop Spalding 



Leaning on Him, make with reverent meek- 
ness 

His own thy will, 
And with strength from Him shall thy utter 
weakness 

Life's task fulfil. 

Whittier 



Turn the full light on our lives, O Saviour 
Divine. Show us our deepest purposes. 
Make us honest with ourselves. Keep us 
pure in heart that we may always see Thee. 
Lead us to our own work. 

Christian Reisner 

[28] 



Only a great moral purpose can, 
sustain a great soul, and a great moral purpose 
rests finally on faith in God. 

Bishop Spalding 



Every noble activity makes room for 
itself. Emerson 



The only failure a man ought to fear is 
failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to 
be best. George Eliot 



The flighty purpose never is o'ertook unless 
the deed go with it. Shakespeare 

Men do less than they ought unless they 
do all that they can. Carlyle 

Firmness of purpose is one of the most 
necessary sinews of character, and one of 
the best instruments of success. 

Chesterfield 

[29] 



It matters more which way one s 
face is set than how fast one proceeds. 

Arthur Christopher Benson 



Character cannot be formed without 
action. Arlo Bates 

To live is sometimes very difficult, but it 
is never meritorious in itself; and we must 
have a reason to allege to our conscience 
why we shall continue to exist upon this 
crowded earth. Stevenson 



Everything exists for some end. 

Marcus Aurelius 



Every purpose is established by counsel. 

Proverbs 20: 18 

He who has a firm will molds the world 
to himself. Goethe 

[30] 



POSSIBILITY- PURPOSE-ENDEAVOR V" 

Man is kept in life by work, and w 
dies either because he will not, or because he 
cannot work. Bates 



A purpose once formed, and then death 
or victory, — this quality will do anything 
that is to be done in the world; and no tal- 
ent, no circumstances, no opportunities, will 
make one a man without it. Buxton 



Abide in me; o'ershadow by Thy love 
Each half-formed purpose and dark thought 
of sin ; 

Quench, ere it rise, each selfish, low desire, 
And keep my soul as Thine, calm and divine. 

H. B. St owe 



He who lives to no purpose lives to a bad 
purpose. 

W. Nevins 



Let no act be done without a purpose. 

Marcus Aurelius 

[31] 



They who would enjoy gam must 
find it in the purpose they pursue. 

Mrs. Hale 



There is no action so slight, nor so mean, 
but it may be done to a great purpose and 
ennobled therefore; nor is any purpose so 
great that slight actions may not help it, 
and may be so done as to help it much, most 
especially that chief of all purposes, the 
pleasing of God. Ruskin 



What to ourselves in passion we propose, 
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose. 

Shakespeare 



I would so live as if I knew that I received 
my being only for the benefit of others. 

Seneca 



Our grand business is not to see what lies 
dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly 
at hand. Carlyle 

[32] 



Never delay 
To do the duty which the hour brings, 
Whether it be in great or smaller things; 

For who doth know 
What he shall do the coming day. 

Anon. 

<§> 

A man's greatness lies not in wealth and 
station, as the vulgar believe, nor yet in his 
intellectual capacity, which is often asso- 
ciated with the meanest moral character, 
the most abject servility to those in high 
places, and arrogance to the poor and lowly; 
but a man's true greatness lies in the con- 
sciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded 
on a just estimate of himself and everything 
else, on frequent self-examination, and a 
steady obedience to the rule which he knows 
to be right, without troubling himself about 
what others may think or say, or whether 
they do or do not do that which he thinks and 
says and does. George Long 

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Act! the wise are known by their actions. 

Salxs 

[33l 



POSSIBILITY- PURPOSE-ENDEAVOR 

Surely there is something to be 
done from morning till night and to find out 
what is the appointed work of the onward- 
tending soul. Fanny Kemble 



To know what you prefer, instead of 
humbly saying Amen to what the world 
tells you you ought to prefer, is to have 
kept your soul alive. Such a man may be 
generous; he may be honest in something 
more than a commercial sense; he may love 
his friends with an elective, personal sym- 
pathy, and not accept them as an adjunct 
of the station to which he has been called. 
He may be a man, in short, acting on his 
own instincts, keeping in his own shape that 
God made him in; and not a mere crank in 
the social engine house, welded on principles 
that he does not understand, and for pur- 
poses that he does not care for. 

Stevenson 



Let us satisfy our own consciences and 
trouble not ourselves by looking for fame. 

Seneca 

[34] 



Seize then the occasion. 

Wordsworth 



Many good purposes and intentions lie 
in the churchyard. Philip Henry 

# 

To everything there is a season, and a 
time to every purpose under the sun. 

Ecclesiastes 3 : 1 

# 

It is aspiration that counts, not realiza- 
tion; pursuit, not achievement; quest, not 
conquest. Beatrice Harraden 

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He who lives without a definite purpose 
achieves no higher end than to serve as a 
warning to others. Anon. 

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I would not waste the springtime of my 
youth in idle dalliance; I would plant rich 
seeds to blossom in my manhood, and bear 
fruit when I am old. Hillhouse 

[35] 



POSSIBILITY- PURPOSE-ENDEAVOR 

Man can only learn to rise by 
the consideration of that which he cannot 
surmount. Richer 

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A good intention clothes itself with power. 

Emerson 

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Have a purpose in life, and having it, 
throw into your work such strength of mind 
and muscle as God has given you. 

Carlyle 



A determinate purpose in life and a 
steady adhesion to it through all disadvan- 
tages, are indispensable conditions of suc- 
cess. W. M. Punshon 



Nothing is degrading which a high and 
noble purpose ennobles. J. Martineau 



Life is a short day; but it is a working 
day. Hannah More 

[36] 



The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; 
it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose 
cannot be split on any Grampus or material 
rock, but itself will split rocks until it suc- 
ceeds. Thoreau 

# 

Thou earnest not to thy place by accident, 
It is the very place God meant for thee; 
And shouldst thou there small scope for 
action see, 

Do not for this give room for discontent. 

Bishop Trench 

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To secure a great end one must be willing 
to pay a great price. Anon. 

Do thy duty while it is in your power 
to choose. William Smith 

[37] 



If we are quite sure 
which we propose or have done is best, then 
we may with easy conscience stand by our 
colors. J. M. Stifler 

f> 

Let me but do my work from day to day 
In field or forest, at the desk or loom, 
In roaring market place or tranquil room; 
Let me but find it in my heart to say, 
When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, 
"This is my work; my blessing, not my 
doom. 

Of all who live, I am the one by whom 
This work can best be done in the right way." 

Henry Van Dyke 

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It is wonderful what strength of purpose 
will come from the feeling that we are in the 
way of duty. Fanny Edwards 

<§> 

Whether a life is noble or ignoble depends 
not on the calling which is adopted, but on 
the spirit in which it is followed. Anon. 



[38] 



ENDEAVOR 



is its own reward. 
E. P. Whipple 



Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, 
Those call it pleasure, and contentment, 
these. Pope 

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Thy actions, and thy actions alone, deter- 
mine thy worth. Fichte 

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If a man constantly aspires, is he not 
elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, 
magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that 
there was no advantage in them? That it 
was a vain endeavor? Thoreau 

[41] 




Doing is the great thing. < 

Ruskin 

<§> 

The fire-fly only shines when on the wing; 
so it is with the mind; when we rest we 
darken. Bailey 

If we are not here to try to do the best, 
in my humble opinion, the sooner we are 
away the better for all parties. 

Stevenson 

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What is difficulty? Only a word indicat- 
ing the degree of strength requisite for accom- 
plishing particular objects; a mere notice 
of the necessity for exertion. Anon. 

There is a tide in the affairs of men, 
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; 
Omitted, all the voyage of their life 
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. 

Shakespeare 

[42] 



POSSIBILITY- PURPOSE-ENDEAVOR 

The true worth of a man is to 
be measured by the objects he pursues. 

Marcus Aurelius 

<§> 

Our worth is determined by the good deeds 
we do, rather than by the fine emotions we 
feel. E. L. Magoon 

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He who prays as he ought, will endeavor 
to live as he prays. Owen 

<§> 

'Tis not what man does which exalts him, 
but what man would do. Browning 



The man who seeks one, and but one, 
thing in life may hope to achieve it. 

Bulwer-Lytton 

<#> 

It is not for man to rest in absolute con- 
tentment. He is born to hopes and aspi- 
rations. * Southey 

[43] 



POSSIBILITY- PURPOSE-ENDEAVOR 

No great deed is done 
By falterers who ask for certainty. 

George Eliot 

<s> 

What man knows should find expression 
in what he does. Bovee 

<§> 

We must be doing something to be happy. 

Hazlitt 

♦ 

In great attempts it is glorious even to 
fail. Longinus 

Things out of hope are compass'd oft 
with venturing. Shakespeare 

♦ 



The fact is, to do anything in this world 
worth doing, we must not stand back shiv- 
ering and thinking of the cold and danger, 
but jump in and scramble through as well 
as we can. Sidney Smith 

[44] 




Experience shows that success 
is due less to ability than to endeavor. 

Anon. 



It is a very great thing for us to do the 
very best we can do, just where and as we 
are. Babcock 



Make your failure tragical by the ear- 
nestness of your endeavor, and then it will 
not differ from success. Thoreau 



Be sure no man was ever discontented 
with the world who did his duty in it. 

Southey 

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If you would create something, you must 
be something. Goethe 



Order thy life well in every single act. 

Marcus Aurelius 

[45] 




May I reach 



That purest heaven, be to other souls 
The cup of strength in some great agony, 
Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, 
Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, 
And in diffusion ever more intense! 

So shall I join the choir invisible 
Whose music is the gladness of the world. 



It is the over curious ambition of many 
to be best, or to be none. If they may not 
do so well as they would, they will not do 
as well as they may. I will do my best to 
do my best, and what I want in power, 
supply in will. Thus whilst I pay in part, 



We want an aim that can never grow vile, 
and then never lay aside our endeavor. In 
this way only can we have happiness and 



George Eliot 



I shall not be a debtor 
most who pays nothing. 




He owes 



Arthur Warwick 



success. 



Anon. 



[46] 




It is only the constant endeavor 
that keeps us from rusting and becoming use- 
less. Anon. 



How strangely high endeavor may be blessed, 
Where piety and valor jointly go. 

Dryden 



If you don't do better to-day you'll do 
worse to-morrow. Anon. 



Good thoughts, though God accept them, 
yet toward men are little better than good 
dreams, except they be put into action. 

Bacon 



The best things are nearest: light in your 
eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your 
hand, the path of God just before you. 
Then do not grasp at the stars, but endeavor 
to do life's common work as it comes. 

Anon. 

[47] 




POSSIBILITY- PURPOSE-ENDEAVOR 

/very life lived should add 1 
the sum total of the world's sweetness and 
light. T. J. Hosmer 

Help thyself, and God will help thee. 

George Herbert 

<s> 

As we must ask of God whatsoever we 
need, so we must watch and labor for all that 
we ask. Jeremy Taylor 

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy 
dreams shall be prophets, but thou must 
also endeavor. Anon. 

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In our doing; and our best doing is our 
best enjoyment. Jacobi 

<§> 

The movement of the species is upward, 
irresistibly upward. Bancroft 

[48] 



Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a 
jot 

Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer 
Right onward. 

Milton 



We would never stir a finger, if only on 
condition of being guaranteed against over- 
sights, misinformation, mistakes, ignorance, 
loss, and danger. H. Martineau 



So nigh is grandeur to our dust, 

So near is God to man, 
When duty whispers low, Thou must, 

The youth replies, I can. 

Emerson 



What we truly and earnestly aspire to 
be, that in some sense we are. 

Mrs. Jameson 

[49] 




to it; the night cometh when no man can 
work. Carlyle 



High aims form high character, and great 
objects bring out great minds. 

John A. Andrews 



The practices of good men are more sub- 
ject to error than their speculations. I will, 
then, honor good examples, but endeavor to 
live according to good precepts. 

Bishop Hall 



Endeavor to attend to the matter before 
thee with all the strength that God has given 
you. J. A. Burnes 



Aim at the sun, and you may not reach 
it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if 
aimed at an object on a level with your- 
self. J. Hawes 

[50] 



s no man, no woman, 
so small that they cannot make their life great 
by high endeavor. Carlyle 

Not failure but low aim is crime. 

Lowell 

Rise ... as children learn, be thou 
Wiser for falling. 

Tennyson 

Be always doing something serviceable 
to mankind. Marcus Aurelius 

<e> 

The real merit is not in the success, but in 
the endeavor. W. M. Punshon 

Catch, then, O catch, the transient hour; 

Improve each moment as it flies; 
Life's a short summer — man a flower — 

He dies — alas! how soon he dies. 

Samuel Johnson 

[51] 




Endeavor may not always bring 
happiness, but there is no happiness without 
endeavor. Disraeli 



This court of the past differs from all 
living aristocracy in this: it is open to labor 
and to merit, but to nothing else. No 
wealth will bribe, no name overawe, no arti- 
fice deceive, the guardian of these Elysian 
gates. . . . Do you deserve to enter? Pass. 
Do you ask to be the companions of nobles? 
Make yourself noble and you shall be. 

Ruskin 



Set your shoulder joyously to the world's 
wheel. Havelock Ellis 



Spend yourself on the work before you. 

Emerson 



There never was a right endeavor but it 
succeeded . Emerson 

[52] 



Even if I faint by the roadside 
. . . it is something to be on the road that 
leads to the High Ideals. Anon. 



Life was not given for indolent contempla- 
tion and study of self. Actions, and actions 
only, determine thy worth. Fichte 



The fruit that can fall without shaking, 
Indeed is too mellow for me. 

Lady Montague 

<§> 

How can we live and think that any one 
has trouble — piercing trouble — and we 
could help them and never try. 

George Eliot 

<e> 

If you want knowledge, you must toil 
for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if 
pleasure, you must toil for it. Ruskin 

[53] 



POSSIBILITY- PURPOSE-ENDEAVOR 

One who desires to excel should 
endeavor to do it in those things which are in 
themselves most excellent. Epictetus 



He is wise who finds a teacher in every 
man, an occasion to improve in every hap- 
pening, for whom nothing is useless or in 
vain. Bishop Spalding 



It is the struggle toward an ideal, the con- 
stant effort to get higher and further which 
develops manhood and character. 

E. Rexjord 

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Oh, dream no more of quiet life, 
Care finds the careless out; more wise to vow 

Thy heart entire to faith's pure strife; 
So peace will come, thou knowest not when 
or how. 

Lyra Apostolica 

[54] 



It's going on and up that's the 
fun of studying; not arriving at the place. 
Arriving is the end. W. M. Hunt 



The more we do the more we can do. 

Hazlitt 



In idleness alone is there perpetual de- 
spair. Carlyle 



Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth 
raise, 

That last infirmity of noble minds, 
To scorn delights and live laborious days: 
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, 
And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 
Comes the blind Fury with th* abhorred 
shears, 

And slits the thin-spun life, "But not the 
praise," 

Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling 
ears. Milton 
[55] 



The thoroughly great men are 
those who have done everything thoroughly, 
and who have never despised anything, how- 
ever small, of God's making. Ruskin 



If I were you, I would not worry. Just 
make up your mind to do better when you 
get another chance. Beatrice Harraden 



To travel hopefully is better than to arrive, 
and the true success is to labor. 

Stevenson 



Constant activity in doing good, and 
endeavoring to make others happy is one of 
the surest ways of making ourselves so. 

Anon. 



All things come to him who waits — and 
labors while he waits. 

Robert A. Campbell 
[56] 



Be thy aim not increase of happi- 
ness, but of knowledge, wisdom, power, and 
virtue; and thou shalt, without thinking of it, 
find thyself happy. Bishop Spalding 



Build thee more stately mansions, O my 
soul, 

As the swift seasons roll ! 
Leave thy low- vaulted past! 
Let each new temple, nobler than the last, 
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more 
vast, 

Till thou at length art free, 
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unrest- 
ing sea ! 

Holmes 

Our duty is to be useful, not according 
to our desires, but according to our powers. 

Anon. 

Heaven never helps the man who will not 
act. Sophocles 

[57] 



Let a man contend to the uttermost 
For his life's set prize, be it what it will. 

Browning 



The only man who never makes a mistake 
is the man who never does anything. 

Theodore Roosevelt 



"What helped you over the great 
obstacles of life?" was asked a man. "The 
other obstacles," he replied. Anon. 



To live is not merely to breathe, it is to 
act. Rousseau 



The wise and active conquer difficulties 
by daring to attempt them. Rowe 

[58] 



I have lived to know that the 
secret of happiness is never to allow your 
energies to stagnate. Adams Clarke 

♦ 

The end of man is action and not thought, 
though it be of the noblest. Carlyle 




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